Drinkable Clouds Get You Second-Hand Drunk

While the rise of electronic cigarettes and vaping has led to many aggravated bystanders, an installation in Germany may have found a vapor of a different ilk. Rather than nicotine, this cloud of vapors is full of tequila which precipitates out into glasses (or people) who happen to be nearby.

The cloud generator uses ultrasonic devices to vibrate the tequila molecules until they form a fine mist. The mist is delivered outward towards the sculpture, where a delicious cloud forms. From there, the cloud literally rains tequila out into its original, drinkable tequila form. It appears to take a while to gather enough tequila from the cloud, though, so there is a convenient tap on the side that will dispense it without all the rigmarole.

Basically this is a nebulizer which is using tequila and dispersing the output rather than directing it. You’re unlikely to get a large enough gasp for inebriation, but technically there is an opportunity a risk here of becoming second-hand drunk.

The installing is an effort by the Mexican Tourism Board to encourage Germans to take a break from the rain in favor of visiting sunny Mexico, we’d have to say that the effort seems to be a success. Once there, hopefully any visitors will be able to enjoy a perfect margarita or two as well.

It’s just like that with me, except instead of various liquors getting everyone kicked out it’s always Italian food, or anything containing tomato paste. How much do I hate life? No pizza when drinking heavily. Yeah, no fun. But, yeah, the tequila thing. I couldn’t drink tequila for years after a certain party, ya’ know, the smell… It was strong with the force.

Tobacco was recognised as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the New World, and tobacco smoke was used by western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness, but applying it by enema was a technique adapted from the North American Indians. The procedure was used to treat gut pain, and attempts were often made to resuscitate victims of near drowning. Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia.

During the early 19th century the practice fell into decline, when it was discovered that the principal active agent in tobacco smoke, nicotine, is poisonous.

Something people may not anticipate: consuming alcohol by inhaling its vapor is significantly more dangerous for two reasons.

First, it does not undergo first-pass hepatic metabolism, and so a much smaller amount of alcohol is required to reach the same BAC (e.g. see [1]); some people deliberately avoid first-pass metabolism (by inhalation, or, more rarely, rectal administration; any mucous membrane will do), since then they need less ethanol, and also reduce breath odor.

Second, it allows to raise BAC faster (e.g. see [2], which also has a fairly extensive literature review), and, coupled with the fact that it’s not possible to stop uptake of alcohol by voiding the GI tract, it’s much easier to achieve a dangerous concentration of alcohol metabolites.

Actually, no, there’s another method that only works for roughly half of the population, but reports are mixed on how well it actually works. My physiology prof claimed it does, some of the articles on the internet by people who tried claim it doesn’t.

On a more serious note, rectal administration would probably make many therapeutic drugs much more predictable in action, since you don’t have to work against not easily predictable and variable action of hepatic enzymes. (And some of them, possible at all.) If only it wasn’t so gross…

Jerri:
Stoney and I would go over to Buckle’s and Puff would turn us on to a hot load of mescaline crumbled into a tumbler of ether with a float of Percocet jimmies. I’d wake up with blood on my ass, and then we’d get high. Those were some good times!

It’s not a new technique; people have been doing it for a long time by e.g. pouring vodka on hot rocks in a sauna. Different way, same effect.

I don’t think it has much to do with being an early adopter in any case. The consequences of using a much more direct route aren’t obscure. This is essentially the same difference as consuming, say, marijuana in form of plants (you’ll pass out long before you get a toxic dose) versus consuming JWH-013.

Pussy, never been on a Ether LSD combo high?
Ever play 21 for Amphetamines and Valium alternating?
I knew this girl invented what she called THE GAME. You started by taking a tab of acid. It required two decks. Each card pulled had a different reward, smoke a bowl of hash, drink a Vodka and root beer, down a shot, smoke a joint. Four of us played one time 2 girls 2 guys.
Woke up next to the Gf covered in a tablecloth.
The inventor has a Masters in geology and is married to a college financial aid president.
Oh we all smoked cigarettes as well.
Good times, good times.